What to do if you have thick white tongue coating and bad breath? Chinese medicine teaches you how to treat it

I don’t know if you have ever observed your tongue coating, because the tongue coating can largely reflect a person’s health status. If the tongue coating turns white and is accompanied by bad breath, then you may need to pay attention to whether there is something wrong with your body. So what should you do if you have thick white tongue coating and bad breath?

1: Recurring bad breath and widespread white tongue coating are mostly caused by stomach cold. Just drink more ginger water, often put ginger slices in your mouth, and give up cold food to get rid of this annoying bad breath. In addition, there is another very important reason for bad breath. When you do not have obvious oral diseases or stomach pain, but always feel a strange and smelly smell coming out of your mouth, which is sometimes heavy and sometimes light, you can eat ginger and hold ginger slices in your mouth every day, and avoid all cold foods.

2: The tongue coating is white and dry, which is called "rough and cracked tongue coating" and is more common in febrile diseases. A pale tongue with a smooth white coating indicates cold or cold-damp syndrome. The tongue coating is white, smooth and sticky, which is seen in the body with phlegm and dampness or dampness trapped in the spleen. The tongue coating is white, slippery and rotten, which indicates heat accumulation in the stomach. If the tongue coating is white like snowflakes and dry, it is called "snowflake tongue coating", which indicates a cold spleen.

3: At the same time, you should pay attention to oral hygiene. Brush your teeth and rinse your mouth carefully every morning, before going to bed, and after meals. When brushing your teeth, you can use a toothbrush to gently remove the tongue coating. Eat a light diet and avoid eating raw, cold, spicy, greasy and indigestible foods. Drink more water, eat more vegetables and fruits, and maintain a regular schedule. Combined with effective medication, like the Qingwen partner I used before, it will be fine. Only with this combination of treatment can bad breath be cured.

1: Ma Zi Ren Wan plus loquat leaf lung clearing soup is used to treat severe gastrointestinal dryness and heat, and abdominal distension. Ma Zi Ren Wan plus loquat leaf lung clearing soup can be used. 30 grams of hemp seed, 9 grams each of loquat leaf, mulberry bark, phellodendron, immature bitter orange, Magnolia officinalis, white peony root, northern apricot, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, and Ophiopogon japonicus, 6 grams of rhubarb (added later), 4.5 grams each of Coptis chinensis and licorice, boil six bowls of water and take one bowl of warm water. For severe constipation, add 4.5 grams of senna leaves to enhance the laxative effect.

2: Bamboo Leaf Gypsum Chinese medicine believes that the principle of treating bad breath should be to clear the heat from the lungs and stomach and moisten the dryness from the large intestine. The proven recipe can use bamboo leaf gypsum, raw gypsum, reed root 30 grams each, raw rehmannia, honeysuckle 12 grams each, bamboo leaf, ophiopogon, fennel, forsythia, platycodon 9 grams each, licorice 3 grams, five and a half bowls of water to boil one bowl of warm drink. During the medication period, eat less shrimp, crab, bamboo shoots, eggs, peanuts and other easily hairy foods and other greasy, indigestible foods.

3: Xanthium sibiricum, licorice and mint drink. For those with fishy breath caused by chronic rhinitis or sinusitis, take 9-12g each of magnolia flower, Xanthium sibiricum fruit, perilla leaf, bitter orange, Magnolia bark, and Houttuynia cordata, 4.5g each of licorice and mint leaves (added last), decocted in water and taken orally.

4: Use 9 grams each of honeysuckle, artemisia capillaris, and Achyranthes bidentata, 4.5 grams of perilla leaves, an egg, and a little rock sugar. Boil them in sugar water or chew the tea leaves. It also has a certain effect on removing bad breath.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, thick and yellow tongue coating indicates heat, which may be caused by the stomach. Bad breath may be a symptom of oral disease or Helicobacter pylori infection in gastritis.